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Libertarian VP Pick Weld: Rifles are “Weapons of Mass Destruction”
TheTruthAboutGuns.com ^ | August 7, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 08/11/2016 8:21:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Revolt TV interviewed former U.S. Attorney, former Massachusetts governor and current Libertarian vice presidential candidate William Weld. Chief Political Correspondent Amrit Singh asked Weld about his views on guns. Specifically, whether or not people on the government’s secret, unaccountable Terrorist Watch List should be able to purchase “assault rifles.” […]

“The five shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle; the problem is if you attach a clip to it so it can fire more shells and if you remove the pin so that it becomes an automatic weapon, and those are independent criminal offenses. That is when they become, essentially a weapon of mass destruction. The problem with handguns probably is even worse than the problem of the AR15.” […]
As governor of Massachusetts when the gun control laws mentioned were implemented, Mr. Weld should know that MA doesn’t ban “clips.” It bans ammunition magazines — commonly called “magazines.”

Mr. Weld should know that Massachusetts’ magazine capacity law contains no provision regarding a magazine’s insertion into a rifle. Simple possession is illegal. …

(Excerpt) Read more at thetruthaboutguns.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; banglist; billweld; gunvote; rifles; thirdparty; wmd
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To: Olog-hai

When I was in JROTC in high school we drilled with M-1 Garands (eight shot semi-auto). They would be illegal in Massachusetts.


41 posted on 08/11/2016 9:28:07 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Olog-hai

In flux mode, I can shoot the nuts off a gnat at 50 feet with my dangerous handgun. Unfortunately, like a flamethrower it also destroys everything in its path within 50 feet and beyond.
I wonder how this Weld found out about our clips, pins and plasma wonder weapons.


42 posted on 08/11/2016 9:30:10 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: jospehm20

He’s obviously an intellectual, because it takes an intellectual to be able to join to incongruent thought and put them together as one.


43 posted on 08/11/2016 9:30:16 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Olog-hai

Pro-amnesty, anti-2nd amendment? Not sure how that makes these 2 libertarian. Always considered myself about 80% libertarian but Johnson and Weld just sound like moderate democrats.


44 posted on 08/11/2016 9:30:21 PM PDT by douginthearmy
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To: Olog-hai

What the heck kind of Libertarian is he supposed to be?

He’s a moron!


45 posted on 08/11/2016 9:32:04 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: Olog-hai

How about that shoulder thing that goes up?


46 posted on 08/11/2016 9:36:43 PM PDT by glock rocks (Black Labs Matter)
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To: glock rocks

Tucker Carlson needs to ask Weld about that.


47 posted on 08/11/2016 9:51:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: cpdiii; rockrr

That’s why I like to hunt with an “Assault Rifle”, if there’s no game, I just read the magazine.


48 posted on 08/11/2016 9:54:22 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: Olog-hai

I this were just ignorance i wouldn’t mind...but if you want to be a president, stupidity is not a desirable characteristic.

*****Chief Political Correspondent Amrit Singh asked Weld about his views on guns. Specifically, whether or not people on the government’s secret, unaccountable Terrorist Watch List should be able to purchase “assault rifles.”*****

I wish people would realize, there is no “assault rifle” legally available in this country. Assault rifle, according to what I’ve been able to look up, is one that has select fire capability, in other words, can be full or semi auto. .

Also, it’s a myth that you can simply add or remove a part and presto, you have an automatic rifle. Again, according to my admittedly meager research, usually it involves a lot more than just swapping out a part or two.

The distinction between magazine and clip is something I don’t worry too much about, I’ve known plenty people who use the two terms interchangeably. Myself included.


49 posted on 08/11/2016 9:56:42 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.)
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To: Olog-hai

Weld wouldn’t know a “weapon of mass destruction” if one jumped up and bit him on his jack ass. The boy is retarded.


50 posted on 08/11/2016 9:57:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's Make Our Government and Founding Documents Great Again!)
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To: Olog-hai

What an effing retard.


51 posted on 08/11/2016 10:25:54 PM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: slouper
I remove the pin in my rifle from time to time, it’s a hoot. I can spray clips all over the place.\s

You have to be careful, I imagine, so you don't sink any nearby entire US Navy carrier groups...

52 posted on 08/11/2016 10:28:24 PM PDT by kiryandil (Hillary Clinton is not sophisticated enough to understand the Bill of Rights, either.)
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To: Olog-hai

I normally vote Libertarian if there is no decent, electable candidate. There is no chance that I would vote for this alleged Libertarian ticket. Weld is exactly the big government puke you would expect Massachusetts to produce, and Johnson is not much better. If the Libertarian party wants to be taken seriously they need to field candidates that are actually libertarian.


53 posted on 08/11/2016 10:51:17 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: jospehm20

It’s that parties main problem, being infiltrated with statists and commies using for cover so as to not be labeled a ‘Rat.


54 posted on 08/11/2016 10:52:26 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Olog-hai

Libertarians were all in her gay marriage are all in the for imposing that baker be forced the cake and now want to take away the Second Amendment ...what kind of Libertarians are these


55 posted on 08/11/2016 10:55:25 PM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: cpdiii
“The five shot rifle, that’s a standard military rifle;

yeah a hundred years ago. The 1903 Springfield had a 5 round capacity.

what is this guy on ?

56 posted on 08/11/2016 10:58:17 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (UK out of the EU; UN out of the USA !)
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To: kiryandil

Didn’t he lose to Mitt Romney in the primary for governor in 92 or something like that where is Google oh ...


57 posted on 08/11/2016 11:07:42 PM PDT by datricker (Its morning in America! Sorry Rush, Jim Robinson is the new mayor of Realville)
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To: jospehm20

Really?, holy cow, this is a libertarian ticket?

What next, Jill Stein’s platform, a selective fire rifle in every house?

sHrillery; becoming honest.

Trump turning the other cheek and introverted.


58 posted on 08/11/2016 11:27:12 PM PDT by correctthought ("Obamunism is a temporary setback on the road to freedom" - Liberty Prime)
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To: Olog-hai

Yet another butt head who knows absolutely nothing about firearms - and wants to make all related national decisions based on his personal ignorance.


59 posted on 08/12/2016 1:34:40 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Olog-hai

I am so sick of this “civilians have no right to military style weapons.” The US vs Miller case did state that the government could “ban” a certain type of weapon. However, the reason for the ban is that a short barrel shotgun has “no military value” and thus could be banned. Thus, what the government and the media are not telling anyone is that the “weapons” that are guaranteed citizens are to be allowed to have to “Keep and bear” are MILITARY TYPE WEAPONS that are to be owned as “members of the unregulated militia, that is every male between the ages of sixteen and Fifty. In short, the AR-15 and any so-called “assault rifles” that everyone is trying to ban is precisely the type of weapon that is “protected” by both the second amendment and the Supreme Court “Miller” decision. We are being governed by, and “informed” by idiots and liars. and that AG’s actions are unconstitutional and illegal. Period.


60 posted on 08/12/2016 1:39:58 AM PDT by noname (to all liberal/communists-were you born stupid or do you have to work at it to stay that way?)
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